36-GAME TENNIS SET

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 431, 13 August 1928, Page 11

36-GAME TENNIS SET

TOURNEY IN AMERICA

(United P.A. — By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (United Service) NEW YORK, Saturday. In the lawn tenins tournament at the Meadows Club, Southampton, Mangin defeated Hopman (Australia), 6—l, 2—6, 6—4, 6—2. In the final Bell defeated Mangin, 6—o, 6 —3, 7 —5. In the final of the doubles Lott and Doeg defeated Hawkes and Herndon, 19—17, G—4, G—4. In spite of Hawkes’s exhibition of some of the finest doubles play seen here for many years, Lott and Doeg overcame the Australian and American combination chiefly through Herndon’s inability to give his partner adequate support. Hawkes was at his best. His sharply angled volleys and half-vol-leys and lobs were roundly applauded. Herndon and Hawkes led at 6—5 and 40—30 in the first set, but could not win the needed point. When Hawkes’s service was broken through in the fifth game of the second set all doubt as to the outcome of the match was ended.

FRENCH AND AMERICANS

NEW YORK, Saturday. It is announced that W. T. Tilden was nominated as one of the five Davis Cup players who will meet six French Davis Cup players in a series of international lawn tennis matches at Philadelphia on September 6, 7 and 8, but his participation will depend on the outcome of the charges of professionalism made against him. The hearing is fixed for August 24. Six singles and three doubles matches will be played. Lacoste will not be playing.